At this year’s general assembly in the Danish cartoonists’ association Danske Bladtegnere it was announced that this association – part of the Danish Journalists’ Federation DJ – will award Christoffer Zieler of the University Post with the prize for Cartoonist of the Year 2018.

He gets the prize for his cartoons for the University Post and the Danish newspaper Information (where, once a week, he contributes a full-page illustration to the Moderne Tider supplement).

At the University Post we have often shamelessly exploited the fact that one of our journalists is a pretty good illustrator. He has fairly consistently drawn the Maltes Spalte or ‘Malte’s column’ since 2002, where he freelanced for the newspaper while studying at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH). He was hired as a journalist in 2009 and has contributed with a wealth of illustrations for articles and posters, in addition to the Malte series.

Below you can see a selection of Christoffer Zieler’s illustrations for the University Post. Congratulations to him!

From the article 'It's too easy to fire people at the University of Copenhagen ', published in March 2017.

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Illustration for Malte’s Column in February 2018.

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The same illustration as it appeared in the column.

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A John Lennon goblin from the University Post’s advent calendar in 2011.

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From when the Minister of Education Søren Pind established that interns can get a 'gratuity' in the future if they are good

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Illustration for the article 'UCPH bosses to learn to talk to employees' from January 2014.

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Another ministerial drawing - this time a Helge (former Minister of Research, Sander)

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The Maersk Tower. From the article 'It is too easy to fire people at the University of Copenhagen', published in March 2017.

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A poster with an idiosyncratic map of UCPH from the University Post’s - semester start magazine released in August 2017.

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Former rector Ralf Hemmingsen for the article 'This is not a coup!' on the 2011 merger of the faculties at UCPH.

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From the article 'your high school grade point average can predict if you get a job after you study at university', March 2015.

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In 2016, Christopher Zieler drew the poster 'Students through time' for the University Post magazine. Here a student anno 1490...

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... and 1932 ...

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and 2016.

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Social scientist and politician Henrik Dahl in Malte’s Column.

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Everything you need to know in the kitchen. Poster designed for the semester start edition of the University Post in August 2014.

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An early Malte’s Column from 2009 ...

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... and a newer one from November 2017.

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And finally, a counterfactual happy ending to the Penkowa (scientific fraud) case.